hello i have just bein to my sons parents evening. he is getting kept back because he is not ready for year 1 so hes doing another year in reception. i was just wondering his teacher said my son is a visual learner. i dont know what this mean. he is getting a new iep in sept and she said that they will need to get used to his way of learning

What I'd do is make an appointment at school to see the teacher again and tell her it was a lot to take in and you would like to discuss things further and to make sure you understand what it is she's saying.

hi windsor

it means that the child learns by being shown rather than told or reading instructions, for example when we were trying to toilet train matt mark took him to loo when he was having a wee to show him where to go (not a good way as he kept trying to catch the wee lol) or counting is done with counters or in matts case pictures of buses as with gdd and autism its not that they cant learn they just do it a different way at least to start with, it does make some things very difficult like matt still cant blow his nose as we cant show him how to blow you will find you are probably already doing visual teaching when you show him how to use a fork or wash his hands
corinne

I think and i say think....
She thinks that your son is taught better if he sees something done and is shown the task rather than it being explained to him.

Say for example if i showed you how to tie a knot or i explained how to tie a knot you would be better tying the know having seen it rather than having it explained.

To be honest this should be standard practice as even when i was a manager at Burger king when we went on training courses they would always say show staff what to do rather than explain as its more effective

hey all thanks for getting back to me. is it comon for children with sensory and gdd and dcd and autium. i am new to all this. but i have always have said that my son has to see things visually to see what he has done. he has had a accident on the bathroom floor and he hasnt seen it so he thinks he has wee in the potty. i am going to speak to the teacher and see if his way he learns will be put in his new iep but he is getting a play plan iep i dont know if anyone has heard of a play plan iep